'Moscow Rules': How The CIA Operated Under The Watchful Eye Of The KGB
When CIA officers walk out of the U.S. Embassy in Moscow, they're shadowed by Russian security. The book, The Moscow Rules, examines how they have operated with this round-the-clock surveillance.
As a young government employee in 1975, Marti Peterson was assigned to the U.S. Embassy in Moscow. She loved the social scene and it earned her a nickname.
"I was known as 'Party Marti' because I was out socializing with the Marine guards, with younger secretaries, the single, social life," Peterson said. "We did drink our share of Carlsberg beer."
Peterson was actually with the CIA — the first woman officer sent to Moscow. Her "cover" was to be a fun-loving clerical worker, someone Soviet security could safely ignore as it obsessively tracked actual and suspected CIA officers.
Her mission was to handle one of the most valuable Soviet
